PUNK LEGENDS D.O.A., fronted by the aging but still raging Joey Shithead, play the Victoria Event Centre this Saturday. On Tuesday, Coun. Joe Keithley will ponder [Continue]
CHAMBERMAID LIZZIE McGRATH stepped onto the Empress Hotel fire escape to say her rosary, just as she did every night before retiring to her sixth-storey room. Alas, what [Continue]
I WENT TO the wrong side of the strait for a Canucks game last week, my first since the players wore mullets. “Is Dennis Ververgaert still in the line-up?” I asked. No, [Continue]
THE FUTURE, as demonstrated by A) the pandemic and B) the Canucks, can be wildly unpredictable. Sometimes, though, we know exactly what to expect, at least as it pertains to [Continue]
NO, DON’T SURPRISE anyone with a puppy for Christmas. A homemade gift certificate for a new pet, maybe. You could wrap it up with a leash or litter box. But an actual [Continue]
FOR THE RECORD, I no longer want Martha Stewart to die. Sure, I might have daydreamed about her catching a mild case of COVID, one that would – and here’s irony! – [Continue]
I MAILED A PAPERBACK to Edmonton last week. The postage cost $21, more than the book itself. No, I told the postal clerk, I don’t want you to charter a jet and read it to [Continue]
IT WAS THE FROST-DAMAGED POTATOES that saved Iryna Starostina’s starving grandparents. They had buried and forgotten about the vegetables but dug them up after the Soviets [Continue]
EIGHTY YEARS AGO, the Second World War came home to the Saanich Peninsula. Literally. On Nov. 16, 1942, a Mrs. A. Bramwell was doing the dishes when a bomb plowed through her [Continue]
B.C. FERRIES is keelhauling the King. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the corporation has decided to not only remove her portrait from its vessels, but to rid [Continue]
I WAS ABOARD a ferry the other day, sailing back to civilization from Toronto-By-The-Fraser, when I overheard a fellow passenger discussing the “great sex” she planned [Continue]
POLICE STILL DON’T KNOW who torched Father Yuriy Vyshnevskyy’s home while the family was inside. It has been six months since Vyshnevskyy and his family escaped an [Continue]
MY FELLOW CITIZENS of Dysfunction-By-The-Sea, there is good news: I have decided to come to your rescue. How? By elbowing onto your ballot as a last-minute candidate in the [Continue]
Here’s a shot! Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here’s another shot. Right in front. They score! Henderson has scored for Canada! — Foster Hewitt, Moscow, [Continue]